
| 1890-1894 | Frank Arthur Gulley Dean of the School of Agriculture and Director of the Agriculture Experiment Station |
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| 1894-1895 | Theodore B. Comstock | 1st president |
| 1895-1897 | Howard Billman | 2nd president |
| 1897-1901 | Millard Mayhew Parker | 3rd president |
| 1901-1903 | Frank Yale Adams | 4th president |
| 1903-1910 | Kendrick Charles Babcock | 5th president |
| 1910-1911 | Andrew Ellicott Douglass | Acting president |
| 1911-1914 | Arthur Herbert Wilde | 6th president |
| 1914-1921 | Rufus Bernard von Kleinsmid | 7th president |
| 1922 | Francis Cummins Lockwood | Acting president* |
| 1922-1927 | Cloyd Heck Marvin | 8th president |
| 1927-1928 | Byron Cummings | 9th president |
| 1928-1936 | Homer LeRoy Shantz | 10th president |
| 1936-1937 | Paul Steere Burgess | 11th president |
| 1937-1947 | Alfred Atkinson | 12th president |
| 1947-1951 | James Byron McCormick | 13th president |
| 1951-1971 | Richard Anderson Harvill | 14th president |
| 1971-1982 | John Paul Schaefer | 15th president |
| 1982-1991 | Henry Koffler | 16th president |
| 1991-1997 | Manuel Trinidad Pacheco | 17th president |
| 1996 | Paul S. Sypherd | Interim President |
| 1997- 2006 | Peter Likins | 18th president |
| 2006- | Robert Shelton | 19th president |
* Lockwood and two other deans administered the University after von Kleinsmid left for USC; Lockwood was named acting president in April 1922.